The FreeBSD Security Team has identified an issue in sctp and ip_multicast and has issued the following security advisories: FreeBSD-SA-13:10.sctp The SCTP protocol provides reliable, flow-controlled, two-way transmission of data. It is a message oriented protocol...

The FreeBSD Project has announced the second release candidate for FreeBSD 9.2. From the announcement, the most important changes between -RC1 and -RC2 are: Fix a boot issue caused by some GPT partitioning tools. Fix a regression that caused some PCI disk...

These are a number of links to interesting news items and links you may want to check out: FreeBSD 9.2 Feature Highlight: ZFS General Improvements Along with the many user facing changes discussed previously, there are also a number of internal changes to ZFS that...

“Are you still clinging on to your Smartphone? Embrace the future with Viking. Smartphones are outdated.” We have all heard of Google Glass and many geeks are eagerly waiting for the announcement when these glasses will be available to all. You may...

August’s issue of the BSD Magazine is now available: ZFS Boot Environments (free PDF download). This issue of BSD Magazine is dedicated to boot environments, including the article on ZFS Boot Environments by Kris Moore. Moreover, you can read articles about email...